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DEFINING VALIDATION AND ACTIVATING VALIDATIONS IN SAP FINANCIALS

Define Validations

Financial Accounting >> Special Purpose Ledger >> Tools >> Maintain

Validation/Substitution/Rules >> Maintain Validation

Transaction code: GGB0

Validations are used to check settings and return a message if the prerequisite condition is met. You can

use validations to supplement existing SAP logic to fit your business needs. A validation is valuable tool

that can be used in many of the financial and controlling modules. In this section, we will configure an FI

validation to fulfill our requirement of allowing postings from one particular company code to be posted

only one particular business area.

In the screen follow the menu path (Validation >> Create) and enter the Name of validation,

application area and callup point. The available options are as follows:

OptionAM Asset Management

CO Controlling

FI Financial Accounting

GL Special purpose ledger

JV Joint Venture Accounting

KC Enterprise Controlling (only Substitutions)

LC Legal Consolidation

MC Management Consolidation

PS Project System

Call up points determine when the validation is run. The call up points that are available aredependent upon the application area that is selected. For the FI application area, the following

call up points are available:

Callup Point

0001 Document Header: entries are stored in BKPF table

0002 Line Item: Entries are stored in BSEG table

0003 Complete Document

In the next screen, enter the description of the validation and then click the insert entry button to

add a step to the validation. Enter the prerequisite and checks using Boolean logic. The

message is also typed in/selected after defining them as Error(E), Warning(W), Cancel(A) orInformation(I). After all the details have been typed in, click the check syntax icon. Saving the

validation generates ABAP code to perform the validation.

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Activate FI Validations - OB28 or GGB4

Activate Validations

Financial Accounting >> Financial Accounting Global Settings >> Document >> Line

Item >> Define Validations for Posting

Transaction Code: OB28 or GGB4

OB28 takes you specifically to the FI validation application area. Using GGB4, you can manage

the activation of all validations in the system for any application area or callup point.

CC: Four digit character identifier company code you want to activate your validation

with. Only one validation can be active per company code per callup point. You can add

additional steps to your validation in order to carry out more validations.

CallPnt:Enter the call up point you want your validation to be executed with.

Validat ion:Enter the identifier of the validation that you want to activate

Activ tn Level:Enter the activation level for validation. Valid values are 0 (not active), 1

(activated throughout the system) and 2 (activated except for batch input)